State v. James’s Empirical Analysis
2014
Citation profile
6
cited by 6 later decisions
1
states following
April 2019
most recently cited
6 state decisions
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]e note that Webster's Third New Int'l Dictionary (unabridged ed. 2002) can be considered to be a 'contemporaneous' source for statutes dating back to 1961 (if not earlier).”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.